NEVER STARVING ARTISTS.
I once read that dreaming is your mind reorganizing all of the images you absorb in a day. For me, writing is a chance to reorganize all the ideas. It's my therapy and it's my art––admittedly often better therapy than art––but I need it. As a painter, Hannah too has her therapy, a way for her to slip into the right brain and peek around for a while.In terms of pursuing a career as farmers we decided early on that we didn't want to leave behind our art. Lucky for us there is a lot of room to be creative on the farm, to decorate, construct, catalogue and design; plenty of reasons to paint; plenty of ideas to record. Employing our crafts has been important for sanity as we wait for the farm details to work themselves out, but we don't want for art to disappear once the season gets going. No matter how busy we are, we try and create time for our art. It's important to us to integrate it into our everyday lives. Every artist dreams of getting paid to do what they love––we feel if we can be successful farmers who actively pursue their art, we can consider ourselves successful artists as well.- Jesse.
